Airports: The European Commission adopts new guidelines on State aid to airports and airlines

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 20 February 2014, the European Commission adopted new guidelines on state aid to airports and airlines. These guidelines replace, on the one hand, the Guidelines on the application of Articles 92 and 93 of the EC Treaty and Article 61 of the EEA Agreement to State aid in the aviation sector (OJ No C 350, 10 December 1994, p. 5) and, on the other hand, the Community guidelines on financing of airports and start-up aid to airlines departing from regional airports (OJ No C 312, 9 December 2005, p. 1). The adoption of these guidelines was preceded by two public consultations. The first took the form of a questionnaire published in April 2011. The second, which